Just disappeared.. [4] The identities of the middle child, who Rasmussen fathered, and her mother remain unknown. In November 2002, he was arrested for Juns murder and in 2003, he was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life after he pled guilty to the crime. The focus from this day forward should be to find the family of that little girl, he said. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. On November 10, 1985, a barrel was found by hunters on private property close to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. It would take 17 years until the killer could be named and another two until his victims would be identified. Vanner fended off her loved ones questions with an array of excuses. Investigators believe that the mother of the child was also killed by Rasmussen. Updates in the case of the Bear Brook Murders. The woman, the oldest child and the youngest child . Under a plea deal, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. It had previously been thought impossible to recover autosomal DNA from hair strands that were no longer attached to the root, but a forensic lab in California had been working on a new method to reassemble the broken autosomal DNA found in rootless hair. Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. A fourth victim in the . Timelines come together. Honeychurch was last seen in La Puente, California, on Thanksgiving day that year. Rose ultimately went to the Contra Costa County Sheriff, where Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective. [7], By 1978, Rasmussen was dating Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch. When somebody's story keeps changing, it means that they [have] either made something up, can't remember what they told you the first time or that they're lying to you, she added. This is somebody who forms relationships and clearly is having social attachments. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. [38], Marlyse had previously married Marie's father in June 1971 and divorced by 1974. Jesse Morgan, who grew up in a small trailer park surrounded by Bear Brook, was 11 when he and his friends stumbled upon the first barrel. DNA evidence then connected the man officially identified as Terry Rasmussen to the bodies found in Bear Brook. Before that, hed been jailed in 1988 for driving a stolen vehicle under the name Gerry Mockerman, and even earlier in 1985 for drunk driving and child endangerment. Host Jason Moon documents how those involved grapple with the idea that the prevailing story about who killed Sharon Johnson could be a lie. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Known by a lengthy list of aliases, Terry Peder Rasmussen has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" for assuming so many different identities as he infiltrated families and destroyed lives in New Hampshire and California. A conversation with one of Terry Rasmussen's surviving children. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? The mother of the middle child, the unidentified girl in the second barrel found at Bear Brook in 2000, who was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter, has also never been found nor identified. Since 2017, he has been named as a suspect in several other crimes. The second child found in the second barrel has not yet been identified although DNA evidence has confirmed thatRasmussen wasthe parent of this unknown victim and that she was not biologically related to Honeychurch or her daughters. Like Rasmussen's confirmed victims, she had died of blunt force trauma to the head. The abandonment of five-year-old Lisa in Scotts Valley, California. The poster claimed to be McWaters half-sister. For more than two decades, the Bear Brook murders remained a complete mystery. First thing we need to do is find out who she is, because without knowing who she is, it's pretty hard to track back and find out where she stayed and who her relatives were and who she associated with, he said. At least ten possible identities were ruled out. A chameleon is revealed. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care.. The veteran detective on the case develops a theory involving her husband and a teenager. Jenson said after those two weeks, the Deckers could arrange for their daughter to adopt Lisa, police said. The refrigerator had been dumped in a canal in San Joaquin County, California. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. The four victims were estimated to have died between 1977 and 1981. Rasmussen is believed to be responsible for several other murders, including that of Denise Beaudin, his known girlfriend,[5] who disappeared in 1981. Thanks for your support. In 2003, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department opened a case to find Lisa's biological family. Donate $20 today. ET on ABC. [2] The three girls were thought to also have some Native American heritage; they had light or European-American complexions. She was previously known as San Joaquin Jane Doe and the Lady in the Fridge.[8][19]. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. Due to his use of many aliases, most notably "Bob Evans", Rasmussen is known as "The Chameleon Killer". Subsequent investigations led to Honeychurch and her daughters being identified as three of the four victims found in Allenstown; the identity of the fourth victim, his daughter, remains unknown. Authorities have connected 5 murders to Rasmussen and they fear there are more. For more on the case, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. While living in Manchester, New Hampshire, Rasmussen lived under the alias "Robert 'Bob' Evans" and worked at the Waumbec Mill. In 1981, Denise Beaudin went missing shortly after Thanksgiving with her 6-month-old daughter and her boyfriend, Rasmussen, whom she had known as Robert T. Evans, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. They werent identified until 2019; at that time, authorities believed Marie was 8 to 10 years old at the time of her death. We know what he was, we know what he did and now we know who his victims were.. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Larry Vanner" in an arrest photo from 2002. [9][17], The adult, later identified as Honeychurch, was determined to be Caucasian with possible Native American ancestry. His own taped confession. If you have any information about these missing cases or others, please call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or visit its website at www.missingkids.org. [3] Moon began covering the cold case in 2015, and later started the podcast. Came to a dead end, Salamon said. It well could be Terry. Lamotte had been found in Tennessee in 1985, killed about four months after her disappearance. Her answer led police to believe that Rasmussen killed them too. Thanks for your support. He had been convicted and sentenced as Evans for the 2002 murder and dismemberment of his wife at the time, Eunsoon Jun, a chemist in California. And for years, no one could put a name to them, instead referring to the Bear Brook murders.. All the same guy., Watch the full story on "20/20" FRIDAY at 9 p.m. 1977),[38] all of whom went missing from La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving 1978, while she was dating Rasmussen. Marlyse was excited to be a mom. He finds Rasmussen to be a particularly repulsive serial killer in fact, the worst, in his opinion. [5] His wife left him and took the children in 1975 after he was arrested for aggravated assault. Rasmussen was born on December 23, 1943,[1] in Denver, Colorado. Authorities were able to link him then, using his fingerprints, to the earlier child abandonment case. [35] He married in 1969, had four children, and lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and Redwood City, California. Lisa sent a sample of her DNA to an ancestry website and learned her mothers name: Denise Beaudin. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! February 27, 2023 We begin with the story police told about Sharon Johnson's murder. [2] He grew up in Arizona and attended North High School in Phoenix until dropping out during his sophomore year in 1960. Who could believe him for one second?, Rose said she told him: I want Eunsoon, not you, I want Eunsoon to tell me that she's done with our relationship or I'm going to get the sheriff involved.. [3][9][10][11][12][13] Autopsies determined both had died of blunt trauma. Additionally, Huber said the womans remains bore the hallmarks of Rasmussens other victims. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available "The Bear Brook case was the . His true identity, Terry Rasmussen, was not revealed by authorities until 2017. [10], Rasmussen resurfaced in December 1999 under the pseudonym Larry Vanner when California-based chemist Eunsoon Jun introduced him to her family. an investigative journalist and the author of the book "Chase Darkness With Me." . Honeychurch may have adopted the alias name "Elizabeth Evans" to use in legal documents during May 1980. The bodies of his girlfriend, California woman Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, her two daughters, and his own daughter were discovered in two barrels in Allenstown, New Hampshire, in 1985 and 2000. It well could be somebody else. He was very, very white, very pale, Montplaisir told 20/20. He said to me, There's a barrel up in the woods, and I think there's some bones in there.. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail. She was only 5 months old when they left Manchester, [New Hampshire], Armand Beaudin said. To this day, she has yet to be identified. The podcast had reignited interest in the case, and captured the attention of a 34-year-old librarian from Connecticut named Becky Heath. Four months later, Ron Montplaisir, who was an Allenstown, New Hampshire police officer at the time, got a call from dispatch to meet a hunter at the edge of the woods. There could be a variety of women out there who could be potential victims.. Huber said the body of a woman was found in a state of advanced decomposition and police couldnt discern the womans facial features. The man imprisoned for her murder maintains his innocence. A True Crime Story is about what happens when the official narrative is challenged. But only 19-year-old Jason Carroll was convicted. David Salamon, Honeychurchs brother, remembered the lengths to which their family went to find Honeychurch and her daughters. It was determined that they had been killed sometime between 1977 and 1985. His face was gray. [20], In January 2017, it was announced that Denise Beaudin, who had been missing since 1981, was connected to the murders. [6] He was paroled in 1990 and subsequently absconded. This isn't the big news we're hoping to break - stay subscribed for another full episode of Bear Brook that we hope to bring you soon. I remember seeing an ax leaned up there.. [31], The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children subsequently announced that an unidentified man, known by the alias "Robert Evans," was found through DNA to be the father of the middle child (who was not related to the three other victims). Two brothers were hunting in Bear Brook State Park on the 10th of November 1985. When people ask me who was the worst serial killer out there I point to him and the reason is this: he not only would kill a woman but he would take their children, molest their children, and not only that but use their children as a lure to get his next victim and I cant think of anything more horrible than that.. We as a family would like to thank the community, for caring and loving our sister Marlyse and our nieces, Marie [and] Sarah., We have looked and searched for over 30 years for them, with no luck. The Bear Brook murders, and Allenstown Barrel murders refer to four dismembered female murder victims found in barrels, two discovered in 1985 and two in 2000, at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. [20] The organization later released an updated version of the child's facial reconstruction. [1] [2] The podcast is hosted by Jason Moon and was released through New Hampshire Public Radio. In her free time, Heath began scouring the internet for any clues she could find. Police have not been able to link Rasmussen to other cases, according toStrelzin. Instead, they focus on complete strangers. According to investigators, the reason that it took so long for the second drum to be recovered is that it was located outside the proximity of the initial crime scene. Rasmussen had been convicted of the murder of aromantic partner in 2003. The case stumped investigators for years: four bodies, found dismembered, skeletonized, wrapped in plastic bags, and stuffed in two 55-gallon steel drums in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. There were little fingerprint cards, with these little tiny little hands, and had their little footprints on the back of them and little tiny fingerprints, Gruenheid said. Ron Montplaisir, Jr., a former Allenstown, New Hampshire, police officer spoke to 20/20 about the hunter who found the first barrel in 1985. When I got up in the morning, I pulled my shades back, there was clouds and a beautiful blue sky, and there was seagulls circling in the sky, they were beautiful. When alternate versions are told by lawyers and podcasters as part of a mounting effort to free Jason Carroll from prison and clear his name. One of his sons from this marriage provided the DNA sample that confirmed Rasmussen as Evans in June 2017. By Eric Shorey & Gina Tron Honeychurch had an argument with her mother and left the residence, never contacting her relatives again. Gruenheid said she later determined a man matching Vanners description had bought 10 bags of cat litter from a nearby pet store. [15] In attendance were members of Honeychurch's family and Rasmussen's daughter from his first marriage. [11] Rasmussen was arrested under another alias, Gerry Mockerman, in 1988 for driving a stolen vehicle. Rasmussen fell off the radar after that but resurfaced in California under a different name in 2002 when police found adismembered body in his basement. June 7, 2019 A clue is found buried on an internet message board. After months of trial and error, Rae-Venter was able to use this method to identify the victims. She left the home after a trivial argument with her mother and was never seen alive again. From left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. A dedicated detective refused to stop digging after she solved the brutal murder of a chemist in California. Rasmussen is the suspected perpetrator of the Bear Brook murders. They have so far been unable to identify who the mother of the child is and whether or not she may still be alive. When they reached out to Jenson again to finalize the adoption, he had disappeared. [6], In 2019, the three biologically related females were identified as a mother, Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, and her two daughters (of different biological fathers) Marie Elizabeth Vaughn and Sarah Lynn McWaters, last seen in November 1978. Jenson arranged for Lisa to be taken to Southern California for two weeks with another family, Katherine and Richard Decker. Let's talk about the Bear Brook murders. He then took on the alias Gordon Jenson and abandoned the child at an RV park in Scotts Valley, California, in 1986. She went with Terry. Other forensic information showed that the woman and children lived together in the Northeastern United States between two weeks and three months before their deaths. The only evidence against him? [12][16] The cause of death for these children was also blunt force trauma. "[14] He has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" due to his use of various aliases and his crime spree which stretched across the country. He had an unofficial backyard marriage ceremony to Eunsoon Jun in Richmond that same year, though no marriage certificates were ever filed. Buried in the cat litter, police found a human foot completely mummified wearing a flip flop. With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. Bear Brook Starting February 20 Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. On Nov. 10, 1985, a hunter trekking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire came across a large, industrial steel drum. The Grisly Crimes Of Terry Rasmussen.#crime #truecrime #solvedcase #unsolved #realcrimeMusic Credit:. Renee Rose spoke to "20/20" about her friend Eunsoon Jun. [8], On November 10, 1985, a hunter found a metal 55-gallon drum near the site of a burned-down store at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. When Lisa was taken into protective custody in 1986, police asked her if she had any siblings. It was the first time, researchers claimed, that genetic genealogy had been successfully employed in a murder case. The unidentified yo. But 15years later, a similar barrel was discovered in the same area, this time containing the remainsof two girls. In October 2018, the New Hampshire Public Radio released a podcast called Bear Brook, which explored the bizarre, unique case. I do, my sister does, and my brother does., I do know that my mother tells me All that I can get from her is that he was the great love of her life, she said. In November 2019, Honeychurch and her older daughter Marie Vaughn, were laid to rest together with a new headstone bearing their names in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Apparently, Honeychurch had been with Rasmussen the last time she was seen. A child is abandoned. Big, like 4 or 5 feet around and probably 2 or 3 feet high, she said. The victims were officially named in June 2019. I was contacted one day by my nephew, and he was working with the sheriff's department out in California, Armand Beaudin told 20/20. They requested for me to do a DNA [test], and they discovered that I was the actual grandfather.. The bones of a foot . Known by a lengthy list of aliases, Terry Peder Rasmussen has been dubbed The Chameleon Killer for assuming so many different identities as he infiltrated families and destroyed lives in New Hampshire and California. [12][6], Rasmussen died, aged 67, while imprisoned at High Desert State Prison[5] on December 28, 2010. In November 2015, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children released a third set of reconstructions of the four victims at a news conference at the New Hampshire State Attorney General's office. Rasmussen was convicted and sentenced for the murder in 2002 of his then-wife, Eunsoon Jun; he died in prison in 2010. [6], Rasmussen lived in a number of states including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii and California. I guess dying serves him right, Rose said. [7] His cause of death was a combination of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia. The Bear Brook murders (also referred to as the Allenstown Four) are female American murder victims, two discovered in 1985 and two in 2000, at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire, United States. [12] On January 26, 2017, authorities publicly announced that Evans was a suspect in the disappearance of Denise Beaudin and the Bear Brook murders. In 1989, Jenson, later identified as Rasmussen, was arrested for child abandonment and was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison. Rae-Venter said that in viewing the timeline for Rasmussen, it appears most likely that his daughter was born in Texas, possibly on the Gulf Coast if Rasmussen was working on an oil rig at the time. For more on the case and to see a timeline of Sharon's last day, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. We have never stopped looking, he said. A second search was conducted in May 2018. Rasmussen is the suspected perpetrator of the Bear Brook murders. [26][27] In 2019, however, it is stated that the nonrelated child most likely originated from Arizona, Texas, California or Oregon, although additional locations cannot be excluded. [32], Authorities said in 2018 that the Bear Brook woman was not Beaudin. I don't remember exactly what happened, Paula Hodges, Honeychurchs other sister, told 20/20. I just heard that they had an argument, Marlyse and my mom., My mom might've said something to her as, He's too old for you. [5] Two months later, he was confirmed to be Rasmussen, through Y-DNA testing from a DNA sample contributed by one of his children from what is believed to be his first marriage. It was sad, Salamon said. The Bear Brook murders (aka the Allenstown Four) are four female American murder victims, discovered in 1985 and 2000, at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. [4], While using the pseudonym Bob Evans, Rasmussen dated Denise Beaudin, who disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, after Thanksgiving of 1981 with her six-month-old daughter. Although this moment is bittersweet, they had their names back on this day. Homicide", "Four Unidentified Allenstown Homicide Victims", "Allenstown, NH murder victims identified after nearly 40 years", "New rendering released for unidentified girl found in barrel in Allenstown", Original digital reconstruction of middle child, "3 bodies hidden in barrels remained unidentified for decades. It's just kind of sitting out in the woods., The brother that found the barrel went over to it and tried to lift the top of the barrel and when he did that, we were hit with a smell that was absolutely putrid. Police later determined the female adult and child, unidentified at the time, had died of blunt force trauma to their heads. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. [9] By 2020, New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strelzin said there was no "evidentiary connection" between Daneault and Rasmussen but that the interest in his case brought renewed attention to Daneault's disappearance. A surprising admission leads to a new break in the case.

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